Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Self-assembly of fractal liquid crystal colloids

  • Nikita V. Solodkov,
  • Jung-uk Shim,
  • J. Cliff Jones

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08210-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Topological defects in liquid crystals can drive the assembly of colloidal inclusions. Here the authors place water droplets of different sizes in a larger nematic liquid crystal drop and observe the formation and self-assembly of fractal colloidal structures.